We were not dragged into two world wars. We got caught up in WW1 because we were sending supplies to the Allied Powers, which resulted in the sinking of the Lusitania.
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because the United States was doing all kinds of irritating things in the then Republic of China, sending them arms and such.
Don't forget it's also considered YOUR piece of software if you buy it as a gift for somebody. You can't transfer a license to another person as easily as wrapping it in pretty colors and handing it to them.
FYI, Mega Man 9 isn't being emulated on the Wii. It's a native Wiiware title, that was ported to the 360 and PS3 a few days after release on the Wiistore.
Actually, we're not feeding 7 billion. About a billion people on earth are starving. Granted, because of technology we're feeding a hell of a lot more than we ought to be feeding. With current farm land and organic methods, we'd only manage to feed about a third of the people we can. But hunger is still a big problem, the problem hasn't been eradicated yet. The day when famine goes the route of smallpox, then we can celebrate.
I'll bet that's what Sony thought when SEGA tanked with the Dreamcast. Sony didn't take Microsoft to be a serious threat with the original Xbox, nor did they fear much from Nintendo with the Gamecube. They figured they could use their domination over the other guys with the last two generations to ensure Blu-Ray's success, and in the process they've not only lost their top spot, but they're dead last.
I get the feeling that since Blu-Ray has won, the next generation will see Sony attempting to get back on top of the mountain.
There's always been a huge difference between each console generation, and I'm sure we haven't seen the last of that yet.
8 bit to 16 bit saw more sprites on screen, more vibrant color, and even a few 3d-ish games. The generation that displaced the 16 bit era saw full 3d, with *mostly* optical disc consoles. After that we get much crisper 3d, with less fog to obscure the distance, and this generation has given us high def, first party wireless controllers, and online communication of some sort built into all three main consoles.
A uranium fission bomb is very easy to make, assuming you have the enriched uranium. Making a functional implosion plutonium bomb, which is what this stuff would be used for, isn't nearly that easy.
Perfectly shaped charges of conventional explosive that must detonate at the same time in order for critical mass to be achieved? That's not easy.
Wouldn't a better explaination to the Fermi paradox be simpler?
We could simply assume that out of the other life forms in the universe, we're the oldest with a civilization. Nobody else has made contact because they're still in the dark ages.
Another possibility is that they never noticed Earth before. It's a small planet, and has only until recently been generating radio waves that would be distinguishable from natural ones. So, if there were aliens and they were listening for life, perhaps they're just more than 100 or so light years out.
Movement through time is inevitable, whenever you're in motion you're automatically traveling through time, but there's no assurance that you'd be traveling through space when you also travel through time. If Doc Brown's DeLorean only did time travel, the damn thing would have made the trip once, and ended up out in space somewhere.
People are convicted of DUI in Florida without blood tests. My father got nailed by a faulty reading, saying he was double the legal limit with only a beer and a half in his system over a 5 hour period.
The breathalyzer results are enough for a conviction in almost all instances.
Florida has done away with electronic voting as of last year's primaries. At around... September we had a new system in place that functions like a test scantron. You bubble your answers onto a sheet of paper and that's it. They decided to put the new machines to the test for the local elections, mosquito control and school board, that sort of thing.
Also, there's a verifying machine that scans your ballot before you turn it in, so if there's a problem on your ballot, it'll spit it back out and you can correct the error. Cost them a hell of a lot less than those damn voting machines, and it works a lot better.
Well, I'm an American. Most Americans are Christian. And to paraphrase Richard Dawkins, Christians are atheists for all but one god, so when a Christian reads the bible front to back, they could start to question their own religion and go on from there.
Since it's done on a matter of evidence, non-Christian religions have no more evidence than Christianity does.
And of course, nobody could read the bible and surmise that the Christian god loves us and wants us to be happy, because he's a real prick in the entire book.
I have to wonder what a modern Christian would think when they read about...
I'm not sure what the percentage of the people who do it is, but a know a lot of atheists who became atheists after they actually read the bible cover to cover, as you suggest.
My father works 16 hours a day, 6 days a week. And he's been doing it for the past year at his new job. But there's no other jobs available in his field, so he can't quit and get a job that pays him more than the 2 bucks an hour he's earning.
You'd think for 500 bucks, they'd at least use gold, platinum, or uranium for the wires. But it's still just the same old copper ethernet cables I can buy from Home Depot for 1/100th the price.
A liquid sodium COOLED super computer? What kind of processor produces so much heat that molten sodium would cool it off better than liquid helium or nitrogen?
Atheism is NOT a religion, and it has no dogma. Atheism simply refers to people who do NOT believe in any deities. There are many flavors of atheism, and some could be considered religious with dogma, like Raelians or Objectivists, but Atheism itself makes no claims, it's simply a response TO a claim.
There aren't any warnings at the entrance of a hospital about the various conflicting studies about acquiring HIV and being circumcised. Then again, there isn't a single medical organization which recommends it as a routine procedure.
What we need is some psychological organization, or science foundation or something, to perform a study and publish the results. That might finally nip this damn thing in the bud.
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We were not dragged into two world wars. We got caught up in WW1 because we were sending supplies to the Allied Powers, which resulted in the sinking of the Lusitania.
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because the United States was doing all kinds of irritating things in the then Republic of China, sending them arms and such.
Don't forget it's also considered YOUR piece of software if you buy it as a gift for somebody. You can't transfer a license to another person as easily as wrapping it in pretty colors and handing it to them.
FYI, Mega Man 9 isn't being emulated on the Wii. It's a native Wiiware title, that was ported to the 360 and PS3 a few days after release on the Wiistore.
I think this whole idea of cloning a child vs cloning a pet is predicated on the alternative to cloning.
Instead of cloning a pet, you can save some money and go to an animal shelter, and get a pet that might even have the same appearance.
Instead of cloning a child, it's much more fun and better for the grieving process to just make another one.
Actually, we're not feeding 7 billion. About a billion people on earth are starving. Granted, because of technology we're feeding a hell of a lot more than we ought to be feeding. With current farm land and organic methods, we'd only manage to feed about a third of the people we can. But hunger is still a big problem, the problem hasn't been eradicated yet. The day when famine goes the route of smallpox, then we can celebrate.
I'll bet that's what Sony thought when SEGA tanked with the Dreamcast. Sony didn't take Microsoft to be a serious threat with the original Xbox, nor did they fear much from Nintendo with the Gamecube. They figured they could use their domination over the other guys with the last two generations to ensure Blu-Ray's success, and in the process they've not only lost their top spot, but they're dead last.
I get the feeling that since Blu-Ray has won, the next generation will see Sony attempting to get back on top of the mountain.
There's always been a huge difference between each console generation, and I'm sure we haven't seen the last of that yet.
8 bit to 16 bit saw more sprites on screen, more vibrant color, and even a few 3d-ish games. The generation that displaced the 16 bit era saw full 3d, with *mostly* optical disc consoles. After that we get much crisper 3d, with less fog to obscure the distance, and this generation has given us high def, first party wireless controllers, and online communication of some sort built into all three main consoles.
First-hand sources -- diaries, pictures, films, videos -- keep us all honest.
Most of us, there are people who deny the holocaust occurred, even WITH the pictures and films, and diaries.
A uranium fission bomb is very easy to make, assuming you have the enriched uranium. Making a functional implosion plutonium bomb, which is what this stuff would be used for, isn't nearly that easy.
Perfectly shaped charges of conventional explosive that must detonate at the same time in order for critical mass to be achieved? That's not easy.
Those things also don't have error checkings. Once I put in a birthday of February 30th, and it made the script happy.
Wouldn't a better explaination to the Fermi paradox be simpler?
We could simply assume that out of the other life forms in the universe, we're the oldest with a civilization. Nobody else has made contact because they're still in the dark ages.
Another possibility is that they never noticed Earth before. It's a small planet, and has only until recently been generating radio waves that would be distinguishable from natural ones. So, if there were aliens and they were listening for life, perhaps they're just more than 100 or so light years out.
Movement through time is inevitable, whenever you're in motion you're automatically traveling through time, but there's no assurance that you'd be traveling through space when you also travel through time. If Doc Brown's DeLorean only did time travel, the damn thing would have made the trip once, and ended up out in space somewhere.
The earth moves around the sun, which moves around the galactic center, which is moving away from all the other galaxies in the universe.
People are convicted of DUI in Florida without blood tests. My father got nailed by a faulty reading, saying he was double the legal limit with only a beer and a half in his system over a 5 hour period.
The breathalyzer results are enough for a conviction in almost all instances.
Florida has done away with electronic voting as of last year's primaries. At around... September we had a new system in place that functions like a test scantron. You bubble your answers onto a sheet of paper and that's it. They decided to put the new machines to the test for the local elections, mosquito control and school board, that sort of thing.
Also, there's a verifying machine that scans your ballot before you turn it in, so if there's a problem on your ballot, it'll spit it back out and you can correct the error. Cost them a hell of a lot less than those damn voting machines, and it works a lot better.
Why has nobody mentioned his most important role of all? The main adversary of Freakazoid!
Well, I'm an American. Most Americans are Christian. And to paraphrase Richard Dawkins, Christians are atheists for all but one god, so when a Christian reads the bible front to back, they could start to question their own religion and go on from there.
Since it's done on a matter of evidence, non-Christian religions have no more evidence than Christianity does.
And of course, nobody could read the bible and surmise that the Christian god loves us and wants us to be happy, because he's a real prick in the entire book.
I have to wonder what a modern Christian would think when they read about ...
I'm not sure what the percentage of the people who do it is, but a know a lot of atheists who became atheists after they actually read the bible cover to cover, as you suggest.
My father works 16 hours a day, 6 days a week. And he's been doing it for the past year at his new job. But there's no other jobs available in his field, so he can't quit and get a job that pays him more than the 2 bucks an hour he's earning.
You'd think for 500 bucks, they'd at least use gold, platinum, or uranium for the wires. But it's still just the same old copper ethernet cables I can buy from Home Depot for 1/100th the price.
A liquid sodium COOLED super computer? What kind of processor produces so much heat that molten sodium would cool it off better than liquid helium or nitrogen?
The universe is less than 14 billion years old, not 16 to 20 billion.
Atheism is NOT a religion, and it has no dogma. Atheism simply refers to people who do NOT believe in any deities. There are many flavors of atheism, and some could be considered religious with dogma, like Raelians or Objectivists, but Atheism itself makes no claims, it's simply a response TO a claim.
There aren't any warnings at the entrance of a hospital about the various conflicting studies about acquiring HIV and being circumcised. Then again, there isn't a single medical organization which recommends it as a routine procedure.
What we need is some psychological organization, or science foundation or something, to perform a study and publish the results. That might finally nip this damn thing in the bud.
Neither did Earth.